Hi, I’m relatively new to Lemmy, but I have been posting a lot in the last few weeks.

One thing I see when I post certain website articles is the above message. The post still works, but it is missing a lot of information that other posts have.

Does someone have a link to documentation of what Lemmy is looking for when it builds a post? I would like to be able to contact the web admins of the problem website, and ask them to modify their code so that it is more “Lemmy-friendly”.

Thanks for any help you can send my way.

  • azdle@news.idlestate.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is just a guess, but I’d imagine that happens because the websites use JavaScript to load the actual content of the page, but Lemmy is just parsing the HTML that is returned.

    Also, I really doubt you’d have much luck convincing website authors to completely change their architecture just to get previews to work on Lemmy.

    • Peter Link@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Right, I’m hoping that the change might be easy. If it requires major work, then no, it would be very unlikely. Thanks for responding.

    • drspod@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Isn’t it the Cloudflare bot detection page that says “Just a moment” (… while we check that you’re human)?

      It’s probably because lemmy servers are constantly loading a bunch of websites to generate previews and Cloudflare decides that those clients look like bots.